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Gout drug information, dosage, side effects, drug interactions, and warnings. Gout medications are medicines used to control, treat, and prevent gout or gout attacks.
Krystexxa - What You Should Know
Krystexxa (pegloticase) is a pegylated recombinant mammalian urate oxidase for controlling hyperuricemia in patients who have found conventional treatment to be ineffective or contraindicated. Krystexxa was formerly known as Puricase.
10 Things You Should Know About Colchicine
Colchicine is used for the treatment of gout. For safe use of the drug, here are 10 things you should know about colchicine including how it works, potential side effects, and warnings.
How To Treat Gout With Diet And Gout Medication
Information on treating gout with diet and gout medication. Gout is one of the most painful types of arthritis. Gout attacks can be controlled or prevented by lifestyle changes and the use of gout medication.
Gout Medications: How Is Gout Treated With Medications?
By using one or a combination of gout medications you can ease the pain associated with acute attacks, prevent future attacks, and avoid the formation of new tophi and kidney stones.
Gout Treatment and Prevention
Information on gout treatment and prevention. What are the options for treating gout and preventing gout attacks.
Guide To Gout - Information On Gout
General information on gout in our comprehensive guide includes: what gout is, how it develops, information on gout symptoms, how gout is diagnosed, and how it is treated.
Gout Medication: The Newest Arthritis Medications
It is in your own best interest to know what new medication is coming next and learn about how it should work so you can discuss with your doctor whether you would be a candidate for the drug. But even though the newly marketed drugs and drugs still in development grab our attention, don't forget about the older medications.
Vioxx - Arthritis Drug - Recalled by Merck
Arthritis drug Vioxx has been recalled by Merck worldwide.
The Gout Guide: Free E-Course Newsletter
We have designed our free newsletter e-course to guide you to better understand gout. Learn about gout basics, gout history, gout cause, gout diagnosis, gout treatment, gout prevention, gout diet, gout medication, and gout research. Then take our gout quizzes. Subscribe now.
Gout Screening Quiz
Gout is one of the most painful types of arthritis. Do you have symptoms which are associated with gout? Do you have a lifestyle which increases the risk factors associated with gout? Take our Gout Screening Quiz.
The Gout Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of Gout
How much do you know about gout? You probably heard of it, but do you know the difference between purines and gout medication probenecid? Do you know what you need to do to prevent gout attacks? Does your lifestyle put you at risk for gout? Take the Gout Quiz and test your knowledge.
Arthritis Drugs: What Are My Options?
Medications have long been considered "traditional" treatment. Since individual response to a specific medication can vary and because possible side effects are also a factor, finding the most effective medication or combination of medications can be a more difficult process than one would expect.
Gout And Aspirin
Because of the effects of moderate and high-dose aspirin, which can alter the blood level of uric acid, aspirin and aspirin-containing products are generally avoided by persons with a known Gout condition, from MedicineNet.
Gout Medication: Fenofibrate and Uric Acid Levels
Fenofibrate also reduces serum uric acid levels in hyperuricemic and normal individuals by increasing the urinary excretion of uric acid, from RXList.
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